This paper proposes a minimal structural framework in which stable existence is defined not only by distinction, but by the irreducible historical continuity through which distinctions persist. The framework introduces historical non-substitutability as a possible minimal condition underlying irreversibility, continuity, causality, and stable persistence.
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